Kolkata: The Bengal government has mandated the use of a mobile application to track bio-waste disposal from all Covid facilities, including testing centres. The state will also seek the Centre’s nod to set up separate disposal units in Cooch ...

KOLKATA: Private hospitals are adopting various measures to stick to the Covid treatment charge ceiling recommended by the state last week that had prompted the Association of Hospitals of Eastern India (AHEI) to seek a reconsideration. Though the AHEI ...

KOLKATA: Among the 1,872 containment units in Kolkata, nearly 76.7% are standalone buildings and apartment complexes. These are spread across 18 clusters with south Kolkata continuing to show a late spurt. According to the containment data made available by ...

Kolkata: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation is reeling under a massive spike of Covid-19 cases. From 480 cases on June 30, the figure crossed the 600 mark on Sunday, coming to 608 now with 29 cases being reported on Sunday.In ...

KOLKATA: With markets emerging as major points of social gatherings even as Covid numbers are on the rise, individual traders are coming forward and shutting down local markets for a few days as a preventive measure. The Kolkata Police, ...

Kolkata: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT) has formed a committee to look into the ‘financial hardships’ faced by students during Covid and has recommended measures to ease their burden. The panel is considering various scenarios to ...

Kolkata: Paediatrician Arijita Chatterjee (30) and her sister Ananya (28), who is a film production professional, were scheduled to take a July 8 flight back to Kolkata from Mumbai. But minutes after the news broke on Saturday evening that ...

Kolkata: One hundred and seventy-four people from Bengal — including many jobless migrant labourers, three pregnant women, five senior citizens and four persons in need of emergency medical treatment — were flown back home in a repatriation flight from ...

Kolkata/Durgapur: Hours after the civil aviation ministry announced the cancellation of flights to Kolkata from Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and three other cities with high prevalence of Covid cases, SpiceJet applied to the ministry for flights from the three metros ...

Kolkata: No help from strangers, no water from unknown people, keeping body parts covered and wearing masks on while fighting a fire are on the “must-follow” list of the fire services department during the pandemic. Following these rules at ...

Kolkata: A fire broke out at a four-storey commercial complex at the Brabourne Road-Canning Street crossing in Burrabazar on Sunday morning gutting a number of shops. However, since the market was closed on Sunday, there were hardly any people ...

Kolkata: If all goes well, two members of the Parliament from Bengal — Nusrat Jahan and Mimi Chakraborty — might be the first to star in an Indian feature film that resumes shooting after lockdown is lifted. The duo, ...

Kolkata: The New Alipore police have set a unique example by completing the 100th day in feeding as many as 1,000 slums dwellers daily. There are 11 slums, located in three different wards, under the jurisdiction of the police ...

Kolkata: Family members of Sambit Majumdar — the 50-year-old marine engineer from Kolkata who went missing from his ship on June 16 — were jolted by a news report from faraway Taiwan. Sambit’s wife Jayati stumbled upon a news ...

Kolkata: The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) is set to float tenders in a few days to take up major repair work of four flyovers in the city — Baghajatin ROB, Chingrighata flyover, Ultadanga flyover and Kalighat bridge on ...

Kolkata: After a brief warm spell, during which the mercury had shot up to 37.8°C in Kolkata, drizzles returned to the city on Sunday. Several spells of light rain left the city drenched and a cloud cover blocked the ...

Mayapur (Nadia): The Iskcon headquarters at Mayapur reopened for devotees on Sunday after staying shut for three months, with a new slew of restrictions aimed at Covid safety. A large number of people queued up to enter the temple ...

Kolkata: The Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation (Hidco) has launched its ‘Re-green post Amphan’ programme in New Town. As part of the programme, around 10,000 saplings will be planted on vacant plots across the township in the next one month. ...

KOLKATA: Nilanjana Goenka, the mother of a Class III boy, had to recently shell out Rs 40,000 to buy a laptop so that her son’s online classes were not disrupted. Her husband had to resume work and could no ...

Kolkata: The Ichapore shootout, in which a 48-year-old Independent councillor of North Barrackpore municipality was shot at on Saturday night, was the fallout of an old rivalry between a local gangster and the councillor and her family, police suspect. ...

Barasat: RAF had to be deployed in Halisahar on Sunday evening after sporadic clashes between BJP and Trinamool Congress workers left 8 persons injured, amid allegations of attacks and vandalism by opposing sides. BJP MP Arjun Singh alleged his ...

Kultali: Police arrested 13 persons till Sunday afternoon in connection with the deaths of a TMC worker and SUCI member at Kultali in South 24 Parganas. The area remained tense throughout the day while SUCI has called a 12-hour ...

Kolkata: BJP lashed out at Trinamool Congress’s Lok Sabha MP Kalyan Banerjee for his “venomous snake” comment while the lawmaker spoke about Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman at a protest rally in Bankura on Saturday. BJP said that chief ...

Kolkata: The border impasse over export of Indian goods and import of Bangladeshi goods came to an end on Sunday afternoon when five trucks from the Benapole end rolled into Petrapole and five from the Petrapole end reached Benapole ...

KOLKATA: If guests won’t come to restaurants, chefs will have to visit homes. With footfall in restaurants yet to pick up, star hotels in the city are offering customers a five-star experience at home, with master chefs either doing ...

KOLKATA: Bengal on Sunday recorded its highest single-day spike both in the number of fresh Covid cases and deaths, with 895 of the former and 21 of the latter reported in the past 24 hours. As the day’s new ...

Tamluk/ Midnapore/Jalpaiguri: Trinamool Congress on Sunday issued show-cause notices to nearly 200 party workers in Nandigram in East Midnapore, asking them to explain the Amphan relief misappropriation charges against them. The notices have reportedly prompted 55 party workers to ...

GUWAHATI: The flood situation in Assam improved on Sunday, even though nearly seven lakh people across 17 districts continue to suffer from the deluge, officials said. According to the daily flood report of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority ...

KOLKATA: A 75-year-old Salt Lake resident, who was diagnosed with Covid-19 nearly a fortnight ago, was discharged from the hospital on Saturday after beating the coronavirus as well as complex ventral hernia. She had developed severe chest pain and ...

KOLKATA: Panic gripped the residents of a north Dum Dum locality as a 55-year-old asymptomatic Covid-positive woman went around in the neighbourhood, meeting people, attending office and visiting the market. Though her Covid-positive report came in on June 30, ...

KOLKATA: The construction of elevated Joka-Esplanade Metro corridor will extend beyond Majerhat. This is a surprise to many, particularly, the residents of Behala, who lost hope and thought that the elevated corridor would eventually turn out to be a ...

By: Biplab Bhattacharjee KOLKATA: A 70-year-old bedridden woman and her sick 43-year-old daughter were charred in afire that broke out at their firstfloor home on a two-storey dilapidated building on Banamali Naskar Road in Behala on Saturday afternoon. The ...

KOLKATA/DARJEELING: Austen Plant, a British architect who had lived all his life in Darjeeling and added iconic bungalows, cottages and trekker’s tent in the hill town, passed away in a private hospital after a brief illness on Thursday. He ...

KOLKATA: A fire broke out at a godown packed with plastic items on the second floor of a multi- storey building in Burrabazar area of the city on Sunday. Eight fire tenders were pressed into service to put out ...

KOLKATA: A 45-year-old woman, a resident of the Charu Market area, was allegedly murdered by her neighbour — an appcab owner — after she wanted her money that she had lent to the accused to pay his EMIs during ...

KOLKATA: A fire broke out at a four-storey commercial complex at the crossing of Brabourne Road and Canning Street in Burrabazar on Sunday morning gutting a number of shops and sending panic waves across the entire locality. However, since ...

KOLKATA: A fire broke out on the ninth floor of an eleven storey (G+10) residential building in an upscale Alipore area on Saturday evening, police said. Though there are no reports of any casualty, the incident has left the ...

Kolkata: A large section of intermediate-semester students from several colleges and universities have written to chief minister Mamata Banerjee and vice-chancellors of state-run universities to resolve the issue of examinations and to bring clarity about the evaluation method. The ...

Kolkata: A number of parents across city schools not happy with waiver of portions of bus/transportation fees and many are still withholding payments for the first quarter. To encourage parents to start paying off arrears, many schools have started ...

Kolkata: After online classes, tests and extra-curricular activities, the latest normal is the virtual prize-giving ceremony. The difference between the physical events in auditoriums and the ones held in the cloud was that there were many more audience with ...